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IX. Van Wyk et al., Creativity and Its Discontents
Alan Van Wyk and Michel Weber (eds.), Creativity and Its Discontents. The Response to Whitehead’s Process and Reality, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought VIII, 2008. (240 p. ; ISBN 978-3-86838-018-7 ; 89 €)
“I do not expect a good reception from professional philosophers” wrote Whitehead in 1929, straight after the publication of Process and Reality. Indeed, it took nearly thirty years before scholars seriously started to try to decipher the book taken as a whole. And there remains nowadays “professional” Whiteheadians who claim that this work can—or even should—be bracketed by anyone wishing to get a clear picture of Whitehead’s true speculative agenda. Creativity and Its Discontent aims to provide evidence for this state of affairs by gathering and contextualizing all the major reviews (translated where need be) of Process and Reality : its original 1929 edition, its various translations (some of them still ongoing) and its 1978 corrected edition. It is designed as the ideal tool to accompany the forthcoming Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought.
Table of Contents
Introduction : Michel Weber (Chromatiques)
1. CUP and Macmillan Editions, 1929
Mumford, December 1929
Clark, January 1930
Ginzburg, January 1930
Northrop, January 1930
Wieman, January 1930
Mabbott, March 1930
Carr, July 1930
Nagel, July 1930
Marvin, November 1930
Stebbing, October 1930
Taylor, 1930
Belgion, 1930
Moore, May 1931
Murphy, 1931
2. Macmillan Reprint, 1960
Fjellman, November 1961
3. Free Press Corrected Edition, 1978
Ogden, Fall 1979
Christian, 1979
Connor, 1979
Burke, 1981
Nobo, 1983
4. Translations
Spanish Translation by J. Rovira Armengol (1956) Reviewed by Garcia Bacca, 1956
Italian Translation (1965) Reviewed by Guzzo, 1965
Italian Translation (1965) Reviewed by Sandro Travaglia, 1966
German Translation (1979) Reviewed by Wolf-Gazo, 1979
French Translation (1995) Reviewed by Weber, 1998
Bibliographies by Linguistic sphere
American and English by Steve Hulbert and John Quiring (Claremont)
Dutch by André Cloots (Louvain)
French by Michel Weber (Chromatiques)
German by Helmut Maaßen (Geldern)
Italian by Luca Gaeta (Milano) and Luca Vanzago (Pavia), under the supervision of Carlo Sini (Milano)
Portughese by Luis de Morais (Lisboa)
Spanish by Juan Vicente Mayoral de Lucas (Toledo)